So you’re not wrong, but how do we heed the warning? I mean, what do we do? Tell everyone to move out of Louisiana and give it back to France? What is someone whose house has flooded supposed to do? Best case scenario they have flood insurance, which means they get a fraction of the money they have put into the house…

There are some fancy ones on Etsy, though. They’re not for us basic witch bitches.

Vote rigging doesn’t happen by people hopping in their cars and running around voting for dead people or whatever. It happens by fucking with the ballots between the polling and the count, and it happens by ratfucking the machines themselves.

It also brings the problem to a wider audience, so non-lawyers like me can vote against bad judges and write to our lawmakers to get them to do better. It isn’t ultimately just a victory for the few lucky people whose cases get famous, but it is very frustrating to know that there are bunches of people who won’t get…

I hope he can get a team similar to what Michelle Knight (one of the women kidnapped and imprisoned for years in Cleveland) has. He needs a team to help him manage his money and fame, whose goal is to make sure his resources last for his whole life. It is unlikely that he will be able to support himself, and he…

We can judge him, though, right? Because I am judging him. She has made at least 2 poor choices and maybe could use some help at life skills, but he's dangerous.

Cleveland? Cleveland is on the list? I'm from Cleveland. We're on a list that isn't about lead poisoning? This is some trans-dimensional shit, isn't it? Or it's sarcasm. Yep, I recognize this. It's definitely sarcasm. Ok, I can function now.

That video is a marvel.

It’s good for those of us who need to show up with a gift — I'd have brought a casserole otherwise, and that's not 21 at birthday party fun!

This. It’s important to remember that only 100 years ago Europe and the USA also had repressive clothing requirements for women. These things can change. I have a book of Islamic poetry written hundreds of years ago that is mostly about drinking and dancing and joy. I hope that the currently fashionable version of…

Kasich is as far right as any of the others except Cruz, though. There isn't much further to move.

The electoral college ensures that parties always collapse to 2. Even in the 19th and early 20th centuries, third parties never stood a chance. We would have to change our first past the post system to support anything more than fringe 3rd parties.

This. Trump is just an inelegant incarnation of all of the above + some protectionist mouth noises.

I saw an analysis—I can’t remember if it was on Vox or Charlie Pierce at Esquire— that said the Republican Party serves the interests of the top 1% and the Democrats the next 19%. Nobody served the next 80%. While I think the Republican Party is incompatible with a Labor movement, it is a large and underserved…

The erosion happened 30 years before the tea party. Ronald Reagan invited the fundamentalists in, and before him Nixon invited the racists. Using the tea party as the demarcation would lead to a lot of incorrect assumptions about the causes; they were the result, not the engine of change.

It would be a more dignified death than the election, at least.

I’m in the same place. I believe them and they should get justice and then go far, far away and sssshhhhh forever.

Jeztaku = election 2016. No more I will dieeeeeeeeee.

Sure but the games are several weeks long, so a lot of athletes finish their competition with plenty of days for fun before the closing ceremony. Have a safe bacchanal, kids!

Agreed, in my heart, if not in stores’ inventories. I am old enough to remember when pants came in a variety of silhouettes.